Detention, Tasmania
Detention is a rural locality in the local government area of Circular Head in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about east of the town of Smithton. The 2016 census recorded a population of nil for the state suburb of Detention.
History
Detention was gazetted as a locality in 1973.The Detention River, from which the locality takes its name, was so named in 1826 when a party of surveyors was stranded there by a flood.